All Dr. Ta-Nehisi Coates has done, and continues to do, is apply the same principles to Israel-Palestine that he applies to America.
People become hesitant to acknowledge and discuss apartheid, and the outrage against states built on ethnocracy diminishes, regardless of where they are.
Once we enter that intellectual territory, everything seems to come to a halt. Ironically, there is a mental boundary that stops at Palestine—suddenly, the commitment to these values fades.
It's wild, almost absurd, and deeply sad that in both America and Canada, many who identify as liberals, progressives, "human rights" advocates, social justice activists, or empowering feminists for women's rights do so only until the topic shifts to Palestine.
Israel's torture of Palestinian detainees is distinctive in that it serves more as a method of punishment than of interrogation. Conducted openly rather than in secrecy, it aims to terrorize other detainees, reflecting both a sense of impunity and an implicit endorsement by official policy.
Recent reports on the conditions in Israeli detention facilities describe them as sites of systematic abuse.
Ceasefire Now. Free Them All. No War with Iran. Not Another Bomb. End Apartheid.
pessimisms of all kinds seem performatively self defeating to me in a peculiar way - it's not so much that I can't imagine being convinced of some version of "good things aren't possible (through the state / in general)", but I can't imagine doing theory about it
I'll probably regret this one, but one reason the US has not reined Israel in is that Israel is in the process of taking out a range of bad actors and threats that the US is happy to see gone. The same is true for the Saudis and Emiratis. 1/